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(June 2011) New Media, Social Scholarship: Scholars’ Perceptions of their Blogs within the System of Scholarly Communication
This document summarizes a presentation given at the 5th Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing & E-Publications on June 30, 2011 in London. The presentation discussed research on how academic scholars perceive their blogs in relation to scholarly communication and preservation. The research examined bloggers' perceptions through questionnaires, interviews, and blog analysis. Key findings included that most bloggers saw their blog as part of their scholarly record and wanted it preserved, but many were uncertain who was responsible for long-term preservation. The presentation thanked various individuals and organizations for their support of the research.
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- 1. NEW MEDIA, SOCIAL SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARS’PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR BLOGS WITHIN THE SYSTEM OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION CAROLYN.HANK@MCGILL.CA Assistant Professor ▪ School of Information Studies 5TH BLOOMSBURY CONFERENCE ON E-PUBLISHING & E-PUBLICATIONS JUNE 30, 2011 ▪ LONDON, UK
- 2. RESEARCH QUESTIONS How do scholars who blog perceive their blog in relation to their cumulative scholarly record?
- 3. RESEARCH QUESTIONS How do scholars who blog perceive their blog in relation to long-term stewardship? Who do they perceive as responsible as well as capable for blog preservation?
- 4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS What blog characteristics impact preservation? What blogger behaviours impact preservation?
- 5. UNITS & DATASOURCES BLOG Questionnaires Interviews BLOGGER Blog Analysis
- 6. POPULATION Purposive Sampling Academic Blog Portal <http://www.academicblogs.org>
- 7. ELIGIBLE BLOGS History| Economics| Law | BioChemPhys (29%) 125 Single-Blogs | 65 Co-Blogs
- 8. ELIGIBLE BLOGGERS 107 Single-Bloggers | 187 Co-Bloggers
- 9. QUESTIONNAIRES RR 1: QI: 63% | QII: 46% | QI/II: 52% Completed sample: 153 respondents Outcome rates derived from Internet surveys of specifically named persons from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR, 2009)
- 10. INTERVIEWS 24 semi-structured phone interviews 72(47%) of QI & QII respondents expressed interest
- 11. BLOG ANALYSIS Coded 93 blogs Authorship Attributes Blog Elements & Features Rights & Disclaimers 57 to 63 Indicators Authority & Audience (on/off blog) Blog Publishing Activity Post Features Archiving
- 12. results 12/48
- 13. OCCUPATION % post-secondary institution BLOGGER
- 14. OCCUPATION Distinguished/ Chaired Prof. Professor/ Full Prof. + % (n=58) BLOGGER
- 15. AGE years mean real age (range 25 to 70 years old) BLOGGER
- 16. AGE years mean professional age (range 0 to 39 years) BLOGGER
- 17. GENDER % are male BLOGGER
- 18. ESTABLISHED PUBLICATION AND SERVICE HISTORY BLOGGER
- 19. peer-reviewed article conference proceedings essay.article.op-ed(other) book chapter book review monograph (author) comment (journal) book review (other) monograph (editor) textbook BLOGGER
- 20. SERVICE 91% have performed at least 1 of Journal editor/ 38% these service associate editor activities Manuscript/book 70% evaluator Journal article 79% referee 0% 100% BLOGGER
- 21. BLOG INSTANCES % publish to 2 or more blogs BLOGGER
- 22. MICROBLOGGING % do not tweet BLOGGER
- 23. BLOG HISTORY % first blog published to BLOGGER
- 24. BLOG AGE years mean blog age (57% between 5 to 8 years old) BLOG
- 25. IDENTITY 84 % 8% 13% Real name | Both | Pseudonym BLOG
- 26. BLOGGING % update their blog 1+ times per week BLOGGER
- 27. BLOGGING % published a new post within the previous week BLOG
- 28. POSTING % make all of their posts publicly available BLOGGER
- 29. POSTING posts Average posts per month (2,726 posts published August 1-31, 2010) BLOG
- 30. PRIMARY AUDIENCE Everyone else 8% students, family, friends, others General public 32% Colleagues and 61% professional peers 0% 100% BLOGGER
- 31. ENGAGEMENT % employ a post commenting feature BLOGGER
- 32. ENGAGEMENT % respond to comments BLOGGER
- 33. ENGAGEMENT % post comments to other blogs 1+ times per week BLOGGER
- 34. COMMENTS % of most recent posts had zero comments BLOG
- 35. COMMENTS So looked atposts from 1 year earlier BLOG
- 36. COMMENTS 2009 45% 40% 35% 30% POSTS 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% 0 1 2-3 4-5 6-10 11-19 ≥ 20 COMMENTS BLOG
- 37. RIGHTS & USE Copyright Statement (n=34) Creative Commons (n=13) % feature 1 or more statements or licenses BLOG
- 38. DISCLAIMERS Own opinion Not responsible Advice % have an explicit or implicit disclaimer-style statement BLOG
- 39. COMMENT POLICY Moderation Tone & language Copyright & licenses % have an explicit or implicit comment policy or guidelines BLOG
- 40. EDITING % edit posts after publication BLOGGER
- 41. … only 2blogs included a policy or statement BLOG
- 42. SCHOLARSHIP Public 100% Allows use and Scholarly exchange 94% record 80% Subject to critical review 68% 66% agree with all three criteria Association of Research Libraries (1986). Braxton, J.M., Luckey, W., BLOGGER & Helland, P. (2002).
- 43. INVITATIONS % … to present BLOGGER
- 44. INVITATIONS % … to collaborate BLOGGER
- 45. INVITATIONS % … to serve BLOGGER
- 46. INVITATIONS % … to publish BLOGGER
- 47. conference proceedings essay.article.op-ed (other) book review book chapter peer-reviewed article book review (other) monograph (author) comment (journal) monograph (editor) textbook BLOGGER
- 48. SCHOLARY LIFE PROMOTION GREATER VISIBILITY WORK ENJOYMENT TEACHING QUALITY SHARING PRE-PUBS IMPROVED WRITING EFFICIENCY NEITHER WRITING QUALITY IMPAIRED RESEARCH QUALITY RESEARCH CREATIVITY RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% BLOGGER
- 49. PRESERVATION % preservation for public access & use into the indefinite future BLOGGER
- 50. BLOGGING OVER TIME About the same 35% Somewhat less 25% A lot less 17% Somewhat more 14% A lot more 8% BLOGGER
- 51. if? What 51/48
- 53. SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT ANGER C’EST LA VIE
- 54. Pretty bad. Devastated, both emotionally and professionally. Very sad. SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT ANGER C’EST LA VIE
- 55. I’d do something drastic [in response]. Mad as hell. Pretty peeved. Angry & upset. SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT ANGER C’EST LA VIE
- 56. I don’t haveto do it anymore. I get half an hour of my life back. SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT ANGER C’EST LA VIE
- 57. Probably have a drink & forget about it. Not welcomed but not tragic … I’d get over it. Pour another cup of coffee & get Drop out … back to work. until something else comes along. SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT ANGER C’EST LA VIE
- 58. It would takean extreme catastrophe. How would that happen? SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT ANGER C’EST LA VIE
- 59. next? What’s 59/48
- 60. THANKS TO … Dr.Helen R. Tibbo Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz Paul Jones Dr. Richard Marciano Dr. Cal Lee Dr. Deborah Barreau
- 61. THANKS FOR … BetaPhi Mu 2010 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- 62. … AND THANKYOU CAROLYN HANK Email: carolyn.hank@mcgill.ca Phone: 514.398.4684 Web: http://ils.unc.edu/~hcarolyn Slideshow: QUESTIONS